XFCE transparent desktop icons text background

To make the XFCE desktop icons text background transparent create this file in the $HOME directory: ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (or check if it already exists!) and put the following in it:

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0

base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
base[SELECTED] = "#5D97D1"
base[ACTIVE] = "#5D97D1"

fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

Log out and in. Colour codes can be changed. The above looks good for darker background:

Hint is from here.

UPDATE (01 Jul 2015): for alternative settings that make the icons text semi-transparent, check this newer post.

EDIT (22 May 2016): Added a reminder that the file may be already present. Thanks to Jeremy. Also, I noticed that the code above had two .gtkrc-2.0 examples merged as one. Now it is fixed. I apologize for the confusion.

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